40th Missile Brigade

40-я ракетная бригада

Military Unit: 48300

Activated 1970(?) in Nizhinernyy, Gorkiy Oblast, as a mobilisation unit.

A mobilisation unit would have very few men attached in peacetime, but would be fully equipped.

Organisation:

• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• 000 independent Missile Battalion (mobilisation)
• Technical Battery (mobilisation)

The brigade was co-located with a regular unit - the 103rd Missile Brigade, but where upgraded to an active brigade 6.76.

Disbanded 1990.

Headquarters:

• Nizhinernyy, Gorkiy Oblast, 1970 - 6.76 [56 15 50N, 42 48 40E]
• Taksino, Krasnoyarsk Kray, 6.76 - 1990 [56 03 11N, 92 55 55E] [US designation: Krasnoyarsk Army Barracks AL 2/TA 1]

Equipment:

• 9K72 missiles (SS-1b/c Scud) [1990 with 12 launch vehicles]

Subordination:

• Moscow Military District, 1970 - 1976
• 33rd Army Corps, 1976 - 1990